Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production and consumption going. Questions of ultimate purpose are excluded from the public world.

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?

To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.